William oveeakee



INVBNTOR 1 ATTORNEYS.

W. OVERAKER.;

(No Model.)

STOCK TETHER.

A1:LizcarltelApr. 17,; 1888.

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UN ITEI). STATES f WILLIAM ovnnAnnn, vonI IIILLsBoRoIIGH, NQRTH CAROLINA.

s'TooK-TEIHER. I

. SPECIVIICATION'frming part of Letters Patent No. 381,273. dated Apri-1 `17, 18885` Application tiled August 1887.

T @ZZ whom it may' concern;7 Be it known that I, WILLIAM OVERAKER,

of Hillsborough, in the county of Orange land State of North Carolina, have invented a new and Improved Stock-Tether, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to the construction of v a cheap, durable, and efficient tether, wherein the parts are vso arranged that it will be impossi'bleffor the animal to become entangled in the tie rope. y

' Referenceis to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which the figure is a perspective view of my improved stock-tether. I

In the drawing-,above referred to, represents a post or stake that is driven or otherwise firmly planted in the ground, said post y 'beingbraced by properly-arranged guy-chains 11, that are preferably provided with rings 12,l through which there are passed headed stakes 13. To the upper end of the postl 10 there is` L22, that is carried by the beam. 'Io theshort end of the beaml 20 there is attacheda weight, 23, while'to the end of the long arm there is secured a shackle, 24, through the medium of c which the tie-rope`25 is Yattached to the beam.

In operation, the animal. is secured to the tie-rope 275 and will be free to graze about the post 10 anywhere withina radius equal to the combined length of the rope and the longv arm Serial No. 246.182. (No model.)

of the beam 20, any slack inthe rope being taken up as the animal advances toward "the foot of the post by the elevationot the free end of the long arm of the beam through the action vof the spring-21 or the weight I23."

' Now, although `Ihave represented,myeim`u proved form of tether as provided with both a spring and a weight, it will beof course, seen that the spring 4might be dispensedwith and the weightalone employed, andcif. the

sary to properlybalancethe beam, and t'othis end I have formed 'a number'ofp. apertures, 2 through. any one of which the pivot-bolt 3v might be passed. The socket 16 and itsY supi PATENT OFFICE. f

parts are so arrangedit might become, necesporting-bracket arepreferably formed by casting, and this method will be found to produce a socket and bracket which will be much socket.

p 6o l cheaper and better than the old form of wooden A Having thus describedmyinvention,whatI n `claim as new, and desire tol secure byn Letters Patent, is f The'stock-.tether comprising the supporting stake or post braced in position -by chains or,

ropes connected to said post or stake and to' Y pegs driven'into the ground, the bracket fixed or bolted. to the stake or lpost `and provided with an offset having ra tubular'socket, the

standard having a shank let into and held in said socket, the pivoted-and adjustable beam extending througha slot in saidstandar'dand u f having applied to its'outerfree end a shackle to which is connected'the tie-rope, .andV a spring connected at one end yto said standard and having atjits opposite end a loop lthrough which passes the said beam, substantially as set forth.

Witnesses:

A. W. GRAHAM, JNo. K. HUGHES.

WILLIAM ovERA-Knnf. I 

